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Semiautomatic /

"Poetry by Evie Shockley, critiquing daily life as well as responding to race- and gender-based violence"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shockley, Evie, 1965- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2017]
Colección:Wesleyan poetry.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; semiautomatic; Title; Copyright; Dedication; contents; that's a rap (sheet music for alphabet street); i. o the times; weather or not; the way we live now ::; buried truths; what's not to liken?; playing with fire; mirror and canvas; if a junco; banking on amnesia; a one-act play; in a no-win zone; corrective rape (or, i'm here to help); Sex Trafficking Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl in the USA (or, The Nation's Plague in Plain Sight) 18; ii. the topsy suite; studies in antebellum literature (or, topsy-turvy); topsy's notes on taxonomy; topsy talks about her role
  • Fromtopsy in wonderland["now, reader . . ."]; iii. refrain; a-lyrical ballad (or, how america reminds us of the value of family); keep your eye on; haibun for a parasitic pre-apocalyptic blues; sore score; in the california mountains, far from shelby / county, alabama and even farther from / the supreme court building, the black poet / seeks the low-down from a kindred entity; i declare war; acrobatic; song in the back yard; legend; legit-i-mate; improphised; cogito ergo loquor; philosophically immune; "the people want the regime to fall"; a dark scrawl; a one-act play; fukushima blues
  • Jim crow stole my father's wingssupply and demand; ["stop : meet with me here . . ."]; iv. blues modality; preface to a twenty-first-century survival guide; senzo; lotto motto; a one-act play; to be continued blues; of speech; the obsolete army; truth in advertising; upon this plot; how long has this jayne been gone?; du bois in ghana; cosmography; circe / odysseus / black odysseys (a remix-collage); notes; acknowledgments